Gutter 18 and The Freedom Papers Announced
Gutter 18 will be landing on doorsteps and bookshelves from the start of August. It’s been a real pleasure to put this issue together and we are delighted to be featuring work from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o,…
Gutter Magazine receives Creative Scotland funding
Gutter Magazine has received funding from Creative Scotland of £24,900 to support ongoing publishing. This money comes at a critical time for Gutter as the magazine moves in a new direction, and will ensure the…
Gutter News
Thanks so much for your patience! As you have probably noticed, Issue 17 of the magazine was not published in August as originally scheduled. You may have heard that there have been some personnel changes…
Review: The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Bathymetry of the Soul Early in Amy Liptrot’s sparkling memoir, on one of her frequent midnight haven’t-drunk enough-to-sleep cycle rides through deserted London chasing “the sensation of escape”, she swerves out of control, toppling off…
Review: Lie of the Land by Michael F. Russell
Future Tense Given the state of the country at the moment, it’s perhaps unsurprising that dystopian science fiction is enjoying something of a revival. With Dan Grace’s Winter and David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks showing…
Review: The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution by Robert Newman
See That Fossil? That’s Your Mum, That Is. Rob Newman has written several novels but is still probably best known for his political and scientifically-minded stand-up comedy. His recent show The New Theory of Evolution…
Review: Nae Flooers by Ann MacKinnon
Granite of the Soul Stones, structures, communities and things that are, or could be, solid; Ann MacKinnon’s collection grounds the reader to these fundamental elements to preserve the granite/smeddum of the Scots. It is stories…
Review: Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
Caledonia Homesick Blues Parallel worlds, or the Multiverse theory, feature prominently in recent Scottish writing. The best known examples are Alasdair Gray’s Lanark and Iain Banks’ The Bridge, two books where real life runs…
Review: The Magicians of Scotland by Ron Butlin
Magic For All As the title suggests, The Magicians of Scotland follows on from Ron Butlin’s previous collection, The Magicians of Edinburgh which emerged from the poet’s first term as Edinburgh Makar (2008-2011). The present…
Review: Life’s a Drag by Janie Millman
‘I adore his furry sack.’ ‘She’s talking about his sporran.’ Happy days. Janie Millman’s Life’s A Drag is a real treat. Dead easy, dead funny, dead daft. Boozing Suffolk villagers don their wigs, heels, lashes…
Review: Dacre’s War by Rosemary Goring
Open Borders Dacre’s War, Rosemary Goring’s follow up to After Flodden, remains with the Crozier clan in the Scottish Borders of the sixteenth century and expands scope to include the courts and taverns of France…
a fool’s mind by Alec Finlay
a fool’s mind was published in Gutter 15 (Autumn 2016). Alec Finlay (1966- ), poet and artist, has published over thirty books and blogs at alecfinlay.com. I could scatter the clouds over Monadh Ruadh blow the thistle- down…
Win a ticket for James Kelman at EdBookFest to celebrate Gutter issue 15!
Gutter issue 15 is now out and to celebrate, we’re having launch parties in Edinburgh and Glasgow, but that’s not all. Post-Brexit, the theme of this issue is the ‘North Alantic Drift’ and it features…
Review: The Jump by Doug Johnstone
Cruel Waters? ‘The Jump’ by Doug Johnstone is a gutsy novel dealing with the aftermath of suicide. When fifteen year old Logan Napier takes his own life by jumping off the notorious Forth Road Bridge,…
Way Back in the Paleolithic by Liz Lochhead
Way back in the Paleolithic was published in Gutter 13 (Autumn 2015). Liz Lochhead is an award-winning poet and playwright. She was appointed as the National Poet for Scotland in 2011. Her most recent poetry collection, Fugitive Colours, was published…
Gutter issue 15 is here
Gutter issue 15 is here! Post-Brexit, the theme of this issue is the ‘North Alantic Drift’ and it features work from Icelandic, Canadian, Scottish and Irish writers, including Booker winner James Kelman, Malachy Tallack,…
Review: His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Outsider in Wester Ross review originally published in Gutter issue 14 His Bloody Project is Graeme Macrae Burnet’s second novel and like his first, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, a literary thriller. Whereas Disappearance was…
